職人歌合画本 [5]

伴信友 · 1838 · 伴信友写 · 106 pictures

Shokunin uta-awase, a Japanese picture book of craftsmen and tradespeople copied out by Ban Nobutomo in 1838, illustrated with hand-coloured figures for an audience of readers of ehon. The pictures show individual workers in soft washes of grey, green, ochre and rust, each seated beside the tools of the trade, offering a designer compact figure studies and a muted palette drawn from traditional Japanese painting.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library